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Add text to list of files
I'm trying to use xargs to manipulate a set of files.
A file called filelist.txt contain the file names
john
paul
george
ringo
steve
I can create all these files with this command:
cat filelist....
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add new line after every end of file's contents while merging multiple files
I have written shell script to merge different file's contents I have created directories f1,f2,d1,d2 and files under them , I need to merge all files's contents : comand is
(find /home/ah5024331/f1 ...
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Xargs and Wget stops working after an hour
Running script with Cygwin on Windows XP with Dual Core and 4GB Ram
cat url_list.txt | xargs -P50 wget -i
I am trying to trawl through 4GB of URL to download (approx 43 Million)
Works okay for ...
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Why does this not work? "ls *.txt | xargs cat > all.txt" (all files into single txt document)
Why does this not work?
ls *.txt | xargs cat > all.txt
(I want to join the contents of all text files into a single 'all.txt' file.)
find with -exec should also work, but I would really like to ...
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